The Apple Watch was released on April 24. Like its previous gadgets, this smart watch is bound to earn Apple a pretty penny. Millions have already been pre-ordered. In just the fourth quarter of 2014, Apple earned $18 billion in profits. This is five times greater than the total labor costs in Apple's supply chain.

Apple maximizes its profit margins on the backs of workers in foreign manufacturing facilities, especially in China. Report after report have shown that Apple's price and production speed demands have led to widespread labor rights violations and injustices. Several young workers, including a 15-year old child worker, have died from 2013-15 in iPhone factories for causes seemingly related to overwork.

A new investigation by China Labor Watch has revealed that the production of the Apple Watch continues to be rife with legal and human rights violations. Apple Watch workers put in 12- to 16-hour work shifts, six days a week under verbal abuse and unsafe working conditions, and despite this wage theft occurs daily!

Apple workers are paid a poverty wage, and they rely on tremendous overtime to make ends meet.

Apple makes a long list of promises about how it treats workers in its supply chain but continues to break these promises over and over.

We do not accept the long-term and ongoing labor exploitation by Apple Inc. Our demands are simple:

[1] 10 additional dollars of every Apple product sold is used exclusively to pay for higher wages for manufacturing workers;

[2] insurance and benefits of all workers making Apple products are paid according to local laws.